Spates, inc., manufactures and sells two products: product h2 and product e0. data concerning the expected production of each product and the expected total direct labor-hours (dlhs) required to produce that output appear below:

expected production direct labor-hours per unit total direct labor-hours
product h2 260 7.6 1,976
product e0 260 6.6 1,716
total direct labor-hours 3,692
the company’s expected total manufacturing overhead is $274,468.

if the company allocates all of its overhead based on direct labor-hours, the overhead assigned to each unit of product h2 would be closest to: (round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)

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Richardson hired j.c. flood company, a plumbing contractor, to correct a stoppage in the sewer line of her house. the plumbing company's 'snake' device, used to clear the line leading to the main sewer, became caught in the underground line. to release it, the company excavated a portion of the sewer line in richardson's backyard. in the process, the company discovered numerous leaks in a rusty, defective water pipe that ran parallel with the sewer line. to meet public regulations, the water pipe, of a type no longer approved for such service, had to be replaced either then or later, when the yard would have to be excavated again. the plumbing company proceeded to repair the water pipe. though richardson inspected the company's work daily and did not express any objection to the extra work involved in replacing the water pipe, she refused to pay any part of the total bill after the company completed the entire operation. j.c. flood company then sued richardson for the costs of labor and material it had furnished. (c) for what, if anything, should richardson be liable? explain."

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be: